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America’s Promise partners with Be The Change to promote military veterans campaign

Nov 1, 2012

With more than one million service members exiting the military and re-entering civilian life over the next five years, their reintegration offers a huge opportunity for communities. America’s Promise Alliance and Be The Change are working together to support military families and their community engagement through BTC’s Got Your 6 collective impact initiative. Got Your 6 ensures that as veterans return home, they are welcomed as leaders and civic assets who will reinvigorate their communities.

As part of a larger campaign led by the entertainment industry, Got Your 6 fosters understanding among all Americans in order to help bridge the civilian-military divide. America’s Promise and a number of other nonprofit organizations are working with the campaign to achieve measurable goals in six key pillars of veteran reintegration:

Jobs

Education

Health

Housing

Family

Leadership

America’s Promise’s focuses on military families with its Initiative for Military Families. The initiative aims to build awareness about the policies and programs that work in the hope that more individuals and organizations will champion the ideas and replicate them in their own states and communities

“The latest national graduation number – 81 percent - shows that the country is continuing to make progress on increasing on-time high school graduation rates, and that means more young people will have the chance for a promising future,” said John Gomperts, president & CEO of America’s Promise Alliance, leader of the GradNation campaign to reach a 90 percent on-time high school graduation rate by 2020.

This Monday millions of people across the country will give back to their communities in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. day of service. It’s critical to our nation’s future that this goodwill extends beyond today in the form of community service, problem solving, and constructive dialogue. That’s why America’s Promise Alliance has partnered with Meetup and a coalition of other partners including Corporation for National Community Service, Points of Light, and Citizen University to launch #MeetupMonday.